A pupil of Hindle House, Sheffield, he started with Barnsley and Sheffield Wednesday at an
early age before Allan Clarke and his assistant, Martin Wilkinson, invited him to train at Elland
Road. This led to him being signed on as an apprentice at the age of sixteen. He turned
professional in July 1983, three months after he had made his League debut as a seventeen-
year-old. Early performances with United suggested that Sellars had a big future in the game. He
was one of a number of talented youngsters encouraged to play open football by Leeds Manager
Eddie Gray. Of the talented group Mark Gavin was the first to be given a chance, but sparingly, as
was the subsequent case with others. During this period Sellars, Tommy Wright, John Sheridan and
Dennis Irwin shared lodgings. Tommy Wright was next in line followed by Sellars as the 1982-83
was coming to a close. In 1983-84 John Sheridan staked his claim for recognition and had
established himself before a broken leg at Barnsley curtailed his season in mid-October. Mark Gavin
was still used sparingly and Tommy Wight and Sellars, and later Dennis Irwin, became established,
but Sellars' progress had been ended with an ankle injury towards the end of the season, but despite
that he won the Yorkshire Evening Post young player award. 1984-85 saw four of them first-team
regulars, with only Mark Gavin never quite making it. 1985-86 saw the four continue and Terry Phelan
had also been blooded before the exit of Eddie Gray saw a complete reversal of strategy with older
more experienced players being preferred by new Manager Billy Bremner. He also requested a more
physical approach from the players. Sellars, however, being of slight build, had struggled with some
of the more physical aspects of the game. It did not help matters when he got a red card from a
referee after showing dissent. But, despite having regained a spot in the first team towards the end
of the season he was clearly unhappy and his transfer request was granted and he and the other
young rising stars, with the exception of John Sheridan all left the club. He was sold to Blackburn
Rovers in July 1986 and in his first season at Ewood Park won a Full Members’ Cup Winners’ medal
at Wembley in 1987. In 1987-88 he was capped three times by the England Under-Twenty-ones. He
made his debut as a twenty-fifth minute substitute for Paul Gascoigne in a 1-0 win over Scotland at
the City Ground, Nottingham on 22nd March 1988 and then received his run-on debut in the
European Championship Semi-Final 2-4 defeat by France at Besancon on 13th April, when he played
a full game on the left-wing. His third and final cap came on 28th May 1988 in Lausanne in a 1-1
draw with Switzerland in a friendly in which he was replaced at half time by Vinny Samways. In 1991
-92 he featured in Blackburn Rovers’ Second Division promotion campaign which ended in a Wembley
play-off final victory over Leicester City. However, before he could help to establish Rovers as a force
in the EPL he returned to Leeds for £800,000 in July 1992. It was an emotional move he couldn’t turn
down. He had played two hundred and two League games for Rovers, which included eight from the
bench and scored thirty-five goals. In all games he netted forty-one times in two hundred and forty-
five appearances. It turned out that time would prove he had not made the best move as Blackburn,
backed by the Jack Walker millions, went on the win the EPL in 1994-95. He always seemed to
struggle with injuries in his second spell at Elland Road and found himself on the fringes of the
action. Howard Wilkinson had sought to build a strong squad for his assault on Europe, but the
midfield at that time was very settled with Strachan, Batty, McAllister and Speed unmoveable, and
Hodge, Rocastle and Sellars totally on the outer. The fact that he could never seem to remain
uninjured for long did not help his cause. While Leeds had a surplus of midfielders, they had a
problem at right back and Wilkinson needed the funds to solve that problem by purchasing David
Kerslake from Swindon Town. So, in March 1993 he joined Newcastle United for £700,000 and
quickly returned to the EPL as Kevin Keegan’s Magpies swept to the First Division title. Having
been brought in to replace Kevin Sheedy, Sellars, with his bright and inventive style of play, was able
to conjure up that vital tackle or pass that would unlock the opposition defence, which became an
important aspect of the promotion push to the Premiership. Once promoted, Sellars’ influence
quickly helped the Newcastle squad to settle into the top-flight again. However, fate was to deal a
cruel blow as he suffered a terrible cartilage injury just when he was at the zenith of his ability in
the game. He was subsequently replaced by David Ginola. Competition at big-spending Newcastle
was hot and on 6th December 1995 Sellars was on the move again, this time going to Bolton
Wanderers for £750,000. He had scored six goals in sixty-two League games, of which five had
been from the bench. He had also started three F.A. Cup ties without scoring, scored twice in six
starts and one game from the bench in the League Cup, and once in four UEFA appearances. He
could not prevent the Trotters from crashing out of the EPL, but he was a leading light making forty
starts and another two from the bench as Wanderers bounced straight back as champions of the
First Division. Unfortunately Wanderers again suffered immediate relegation and then failed to
regain their EPL status, as they failed to win the play-offs. He spent almost four years at Bolton
before leaving to join Huddersfield Town on 22nd June 1999 on a free-transfer. He scored nineteen
goals and played one hundred and twenty-three games in the League for the Trotters, including six
as a substitute, he also scored once in five starts in the F.A. Cup, but none in eight starts and one
substitute appearance in the League Cup and made one substitute appearance in the Championship
Play-offs.He spent almost two years with Huddersfield, making forty-nine League appearances, of
which nineteen were as substitute, scoring just once. He also scored once in one start and two
games from the bench in the League Cup and had one start and one game from the bench in the F.A.
Cup without scoring. After turning down a loan to Hartlepools United, he left Town in April 2001 and
went to Danish side Aarhus GF on a free-transfer, where he scored once in twenty appearances
before returning to the Football League with Mansfield Town on 22nd March 2002 to help them in
their successful promotion push. He was then linked with a move to Non-League Kettering Town in
the close season but re-signed for a further year. At Field Mill he scored three times in the League
from seventeen starts and three more off the bench. Although he started as a regular in the side in
2002-03, suspension and injury meant that he was only involved in coaching and working with the
youngsters from November to the end of the season, when he retired. His son was a junior attached
to Sheffield United and he took up coaching the Blades juniors. He joined Chesterfield as a coach in
2004 and became Assistant Manager to former Blackburn Rovers teammate Lee Richardson in early
2008. In October 2009 he became the head of Under-Eighteen coaching at Manchester City and
remained there until on 12th April 2014 when the club announced "The club had sacked the head of
academy coaching, Scott Sellars, as the Barclays Premier League club continue revamping their
youth-set up". It was due to a "difference of footballing opinion with the current regime" following
Txiki Begiristain and Ferran Soriano's respective arrivals at the club. He joined Wolverhampton
Wanderers on 24th July 2014 as head coach of their Under Twenty-One side.